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Show WYNKOOP FRED. County Courant Couldn't Stand for His Cock-and-Bull Story. West Jordarf County Courant: With this Issue wo aro obliged to record tho fact that Mr. James A. Wynkoop has seen fit to sever hla connection with thla paper. Tho blow la a severe ono, but wo shall try to recover from It. Owing" to tho withdrawal of Editor Wynkoop, after his mix-up at tho Junction, Junc-tion, our locals this week havo been neglected, ne-glected, Wo hope to bo over our troubles soon, but in tho meantime will treat our citizens justly and fairly. THE PUBLISHERS. a This paper is not opposed to tho Mormon Mor-mon peoplo. Members of tho company of publishers 'bollovo most profoundly In tho Mormon faith and expect to con-tlnuo con-tlnuo In that bcliof. yet, at tho samo tlmo wo do bellcvo most positively that Aposllo Smoot used hla ecclesiastical lnfiuenco ln-fiuenco to carry his own ambitious wolfish wol-fish ends, and that other authorities woro conversant of that fact, and wo declare to tho world, and especially our Republican Republi-can Mormon friends, that that kind of business wo opposo. and thus bellcvo tho American party tho proper thing to correct cor-rect tho ovll. So far a3 what has been said by our former editor, with regard to being attacked at-tacked on account of his belief and affiliations af-filiations to tho new party, wo do not bollovo It, and are of opinion ho brought tho trouble on himself. Wo have lived too long among tho Mormons Mor-mons to bellcvo Buch truck; wo can not bcllovo thorn guilty of Biich rnothods, but wo do feol Buro that sorao of tho leaders uso church lnfiuenco to control politics and In this wo say hands off, and continuing, con-tinuing, sa gucccss to tho American party. par-ty. May It accomplish what It la striving striv-ing for to purify politics In our Stato. |